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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Nahuatl on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Nahuatl in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
ni- I- mits- you- teː- someone- tla- something- makiː give -lti - CAUS -s - FUT ni- mits- teː- tla- makiː -lti -s I- you- someone- something- give -CAUS -FUT "I shall make somebody give something to you" [cn 6] (Classical Nahuatl) Nouns The Nahuatl noun has a relatively complex structure. The only obligatory inflections are for number (singular and plural) and possession (whether the noun ...
Various Nahuatl toponyms replaced the names that the Spaniards gave to existing indigenous populations upon their arrival, such as in the case of Tepeaca (<Tepeyácac), which Hernán Cortés named “Segura de la Frontera.” In many cases, the original toponyms were followed by the name of a patron saint designated by the religious Spaniards.
Classical Nahuatl, also known simply as Aztec or Codical Nahuatl (if it refers to the variants employed in the Mesoamerican Codices through the medium of Aztec Hieroglyphs) and Colonial Nahuatl (if written in Post-conquest documents in the Latin Alphabet), is a set of variants of Nahuatl spoken in the Valley of Mexico and central Mexico as a lingua franca at the time of the 16th-century ...
Documented Nahuatl words in the Spanish language (mostly as spoken in Mexico and Mesoamerica), also called Nahuatlismos include an extensive list of words that represent (i) animals, (ii) plants, fruit and vegetables, (iii) foods and beverages, and (iv) domestic appliances. Many of these words end with the absolutive suffix "-tl" in Nahuatl.
The voiceless alveolar lateral affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is t͡ɬ (often simplified to tɬ ), and in Americanist phonetic notation it is ƛ ( barred lambda ).
cin-tēo-tl "maize god (figure) — cīcin-tētēo-h, (also attested as cīcin-tēo-h) Only animate nouns can take a plural form. These include most animate living beings, but also words like tepētl — tepēmeh ("mountain, mountains"), citlālin — cīcitlāltin ("star, stars"), and some other phenomena. The plural is not totally stable and ...
The nasal /n/ becomes [] before a labial consonant, and may then be written m.Conversely, the nasal /m/ becomes [] before a dental consonant, and is then written n.In addition, both /n/ and /m/ are realised as [] before alveopalatal consonants, and as [ŋ] before velars; they are then written n, as in cōnchīhua [koːn̥ˈt͡ʃiːwa] "he's going to do it", oncochi [oŋˈkot͡ʃi] "he sleeps ...